ouch.

Here is information about Palin's lawyer, obtained by Martindale-Hubble:

Name: Thomas V. Van Flein

Position: Member

Organization: Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness, LLC

Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Dental Malpractice; Legal Malpractice; Employment Law; Personal Injury; Products Liability

Office: Anchorage, Alaska (Third Judicial District)

Van Flein got his J.D. from the U. of Arizona and undergrad from the U. of Alaska. He was admitted to the bar in 1990.

Ah, yes, the dictionary police have arrived. You can always count on them when there is little else to criticize.

As a writer, I was quite aware I was taking creative license in using a non-dictionary word like "misogynizing" in my question to Joan. Sorry if that offended you:)

Palin/Sanford in 2012 as the Republican nominees for President/VP.

I recommend that every Republican in America get behind this ticket. It is your dream come true. Just ask the Weekly Standard!

Something like this if true would be every bit as bad as accepting an envelope stuffed with 100K in cash and would absolutely demand at least a year in prison. there is a reason why old style cash corruption is rare these days:it's been institutionalized into a system which is large and complex enough to absorb it. But corruption is corruption and should all be treated the exact same way.

virtue001, I think your critic was merely suggesting that if that's an example of your creative license with language maybe it should be revoked.

I think she will be the new head of the RNC - good bye Steele. This move would be a natural for her. Not that I like her - I don't.

"I think your critic was merely suggesting that if that's an example of your creative license with language maybe it should be revoked."

Or perhaps revokitized.

You can put lipstick on a pig; but you can't count on it to govern a state.

"She has a following that will jump in front of a plane for her."

Then I say, "Flight attendants, prepare for take off."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/is-sarah-palin-the-first_b_225890.html

I think I already answered that question!

Listening to Ms. Moore's radio show last night, she aliterated an interesting tid-bit about the Barracuda's (Quitter) lawyer, Mr. Van Flein.

Seems that at some point or another, Mr. Van Flein was assaulted with a firearm while on a date with a woman. The woman was shot dead, and Mr. Van Flein was wounded.

The prosecutor who sent Mr. Van Flein's assailant up the river, according to Ms. Moore?

Steven Branchflower.

The same Steven Branchflower who had "no credibility" after asserting that, metaphorically, Ms. Palin was as crooked as a country road in the Troopergate scandal.

So stunningly bizarre, this current imbroglio. Can't wait for the next inevitable shoe to drop.

Some savvier political observers among us have decided that the lawyer's weird statement was a clear signal that Governor Palin has decided to run for President in 2012. Nothing whips up the right-wing nutbase faster than a successfully picked fight with the awful, awful liberal media.

But others among us think that it's a head fake. They're trying to get you to pay attention to "Housegate" when what they're really nervous about is Levi Johnston's upcoming "tell-all book."

Either way, there must be something terrible on the way. Just watch Palin's bizarrely breathless demeanor on Friday, and you know it. It's got to be something so bad that it would turn off her devoted base. But what — besides Levi being the real father of Trig — could that be? (Note that we didn't say Sarah was not the mother.)

Sorry, but these people are so weird that one's mind goes places it's never gone before.

While no one here has mentioned it (yet), a number of people on other Palin comment threads have suggested Narcissistic Personality Disorder as an explanation for her outsized sense of personal significance. Before these diagnoses pop up here, I'd like to point out that inflated egos, self-absorption, and outrage at criticism can be characteristic of people who are simply tools.

Case-in-point: Some tool who is so filled with smug self-regard that he calls himself "Virtue."

I'm not a Republican, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why the left and Democrats are so scared of Sarah Palin? Wow, she sneezes and there are 300 stories floating around the internet 5 minutes later.

We (dems) are spooked by Palin because she may well walk into our houses at night, shoot us in our sleep, and claim god told her to do it. And she'll -believe- that. Then be offended and scared when the media calls her nuts.

they are entertained by her.

You know like Demolition Derby/

This isn't a hard concept to grasp, if one has a functioning neural cortex.

Why are television networks chock full of sitcoms and voyeuristic reality shows? I don't think people are afraid of them. I think they just find them entertaining. Ditto the Sarah Palin Show.

Thanks for you post. I get a great laugh out of you Palin defenders proving you are every bit as mentally challenged as your heroine, Sarah Barrraquitta

to wit: "will you be apologizing to the woman Salon has made a fortune misogynizing...?"

Misogyny is a noun, not a verb. It means "the hatred of women by men." Last time I checked, Salon was a website, not a human, and it is run by a woman, not a man.

Second, Palin has legal bills because Palin has questionable ethics and she's been called on them. It has nothing to do with "Democratic plumbers" or any other secret left-wing conspiracy. Only an idiot or a fool thinks so.

Which one are you?

The fact that Palin is linking to Van Susteren does give credence to Palin's claim that she is indeed "attacking from another direction."

Palin's remark - "I cannot stand here as your governor and allow millions of dollars to go to waste." - was an obvious reference to the stimulus money that Palin knows she will be legislatively forced to accept in its entirety, if she remains as governor of Alaska.

Palin knows that she will not get leadership victories in Alaska, so she has decided to bail on state government and take her show nationally, and her show will probably receive a big endorsement from her good friend Gretta Van Susteren.

Van Susteren's platform has always implicitly been "see, I'm a democrat who supports republicans, and so can you."

Maybe Bill Kristol is right, and Palin launched her 2012 campaign run on July 3 2009 by resigning in the middle of her first term as governor of Alaska (a good 3 electoral votes), which is an example of extreme stupidity and absurdity.

I am still expecting a second shoe to drop, but maybe Palin is just really stupid (or knows that she will make big bucks at Fox NEWS).

Whether Palin winds up scandal ridden and powerless, or Rich and televised on cable news, her political career is over.